sergeant scott survives the storm that miraculously kills no one. inside he runs into captain tysher and tells him about his wild ride. that s when he told me that he drove through the storm. it was hard for me to believe based upon his reaction. i was very impressed after seeing the video what he had went through that he was still as calm as he was. flying objects, the trees falling down. the trees chasing him. the wind was breaking down of the car. it s definitely something that i hope to never see again. coming up, a drunk driver one officer will never forget. once in a while you ll come across a situation where somebody pulls a opportunity just like this. when caught on camera: dash diaries continues. the first rule of being a viking.
more bit of unfinished business. once i confirm there s no injury to the people in the car, my next concern is do i have an impaired driver? officer white asks the driver to get out of the car for a standard dui test. the results of the test lead to the forgone conclusion, an arrest on suspicion of dui. as for the passenger. i find out that s actually the driver s wife, and she was shouting at him, certain expletives that i can t explain here at this time. but certainly she was upset that a, he was driving and b, he just crashed into a prius. the dash cam video is later used as evidence to help convict the driver of drunk driving. just showing the video alone to his defense attorney made the point that he was not going to try to fight the dui. a police officer who has seen it all has one of the strangest encounters of his career when he
in another surprising twist, jiminez turns out to be the baby s father. sergeant stewart, the father of a young daughter himself, finds it hard to watch the video. it s actually very gut wrenching to see that happen to the child. chelsea agrees. everyone was thankful for the little girl. it s incredible video. i m just glad that she s safe and no one was injured. it s a miracle that nobody was. coming up, a drunk driver leads police on a perilous high speed chase. if he got into an accident at those speeds, somebody usually gets terminated. when caught on camera: dash cam diaries continues.
sergeant robert scott is one of the officers caught in the storm. in this video captured on his dashboard camera sergeant scott is making his way back to the station as the weather gets progressively worse. his thought process was to go to the police department here because he felt like he was getting away from the storm. turns out when the tornado actually developed and touched down, a bunch of momentum of wind came around the south side of it. circulation might be trying to reform here on the upper side of norman. as it did that it pulled the tornado about a mile to this the north. turns out it went right through downtown norman. sergeant scott doesn t realize it, but he s driving right toward the eye of the storm. as he s driving you can hear mike morgan giving the weather report on radio stage kg 103. you got to get out of your car. you got to get in the ditch. you think you re safe in your car. it s basically sheet, metal and
mecham remembers a video he sue in rookie school. it was a 1992 traffic stop in south carolina with a state trooper named mark kotz. 21! trooper kotz was shot, called in for help, and the suspect was laying in front of him, and he got shot and he died. and that video immediately went through my mind, get cover. get behind something. and i sprinted for the back of my patrol car, and as soon as i got to the back of it, he knelt up in the ditch and fired three more shots. 331, signal zero. i ve been shot at, and i have hit the subject. get on the ground! get on the ground! a few miles away, deputy sheriff ron simmons hears corporal mecham s call for help. he was saying words to the effect if i don t know if i ve been shot. shots have been fired. i switched to emergency lights and sirens and drove the fastest